Metro Broadcasting, Inc. v. FCC

Supreme Court of the United States

Argued March 28, 1990
Decided June 27, 1990

Full case name

Metro Broadcasting, Inc. v. Federal Co

Citations

Subsequent history

No. 89-453, 277 U.S. App. D.C. 134, 873 F.2d 347, affirmed and remanded; No. 89-700, 278 U.S. App. D.C. 24, 876 F.2d 902, reversed and remanded.

Holding

The FCC policies do not violate equal protection, since they bear the imprimatur of longstanding congressional support and direction and are substantially related to the achievement of the important governmental objective of broadcast diversity.

Court membership

Chief Justice William Rehnquist

Associate Justices William J. Brennan, Jr. · Byron White Thurgood Marshall · Harry Blackmun John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy

Case opinions

Majority

Brennan, joined by White, Marshall, Blackmun, Stevens

Concurrence

Stevens

Dissent

O'Connor, joined by Rehnquist, Scalia, Kennedy

Dissent

Kennedy, joined by Scalia

Laws applied

U.S. Const. amend. XIV

Overruled by

Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Peña, 515 U.S. 200 (1995)

Metro Broadcasting, Inc. v. FCC, 497 U.S. 547 (1990), was a case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States that held that intermediate scrutiny should be applied to equal protection challenges to federal statutes using benign racial classifications.^[1] The Court distinguished the previous year's decision City of Richmond v. J.A. Croson Company, 488 U.S. 469 (1989), by noting that it applied only to actions by state and local governments.^[2] Metro Broadcasting was overruled by Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Peña, 515 U.S. 200 (1995), which held that strict scrutiny should be applied to federal laws using benign racial classifications.^[3]

References

↑ Varat, J.D. et al. Constitutional Law Cases and Materials, Concise Thirteenth Edition. Foundation Press, NY: 2009, p. 610
↑ Varat, p. 616
↑ Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Peña, 515 U.S. 200, 227 (1995)

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Affirmative action in the United States

Supreme Court decisions	Griggs v. Duke Power Co. (1971) Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978) United Steelworkers v. Weber (1979) Fullilove v. Klutznick (1980) Wygant v. Jackson Board of Education (1986) City of Richmond v. J.A. Croson Co. (1989) Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Peña (1995) Hopwood v. Texas (5th Cir. 1996) Grutter v. Bollinger (2003) Gratz v. Bollinger (2003) Parents v. Seattle School District 1 (2007) Ricci v. DeStefano (2009) Fisher v. University of Texas (2013) Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action (2014)

Federal legislation and edicts	Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment (1868) Executive Order 10925 (1961) Civil Rights Act of 1964 Executive Order 11246 (1965)

State initiatives	Proposition 209 (CA, 1996) Initiative 200 (WA, 1998) Proposal 2 (MI, 2006) Initiative 424 (NE, 2008) Proposition 107 (AZ, 2010)

People	Ward Connerly Arthur Fletcher Ward Churchill

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Metro Broadcasting, Inc. v. FCC

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